Shifting-rail for vehicle-seats



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P. B. FULLER.

SHIPTING RAIL FOR VEHIGLE SEATS. No. 309,941. Patented Dec. '30, 1884.

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ILIMMON B. FULLER, OF-UNION CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHlFTlNG-RAIL FOR VEHICLE-SEATS.

" SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,941, dated December 30, 1884.

Application filed September 11, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, P. B. FULLER, of Union City, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shifting-Rails for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in shifting-rails for vehicles; and it consists in the combination, with the seat back, of irons which are provided with suitable enlargements or collars, of the shifting-rail for the cover, which rail is provided with slots or cups by means of which it can be removed from the sent without the necessity of removing the back of the seat, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to provide a shifting-rail for vehicles,which can be applied to and removed from the vehicle without the necessity of having to remove the back, and which is secured in place when the nuts under the seat are tightened.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a seat embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is a plan View of the shiftingrail by itself. Fig. 3is a vertical section of the shifting-rail and one of theirons of the seat.

A represents an ordinary seat, of any construction, and B the back, which is fastened thereto in the usual manner. The seat-irons .T are provided with suitable shoulders or enlargements, D, just above the screw-threaded portions, which pass down through the irons F, which are secured to the seat. The shifting-rail X will be preferably made of the shape shown, and which is provided with a number of projections, 1, corresponding to the number Each one of these projections of seat-irons.

I has an open slot cut through its front side, and 5 The slot enough to allow the screw-threaded portion of 0 the bolt to pass in and out, so that when the nuts 0 upon the seat-irons are loosened, and the back is raised upward high enough tolift the flanges or shoulders out of the cups or recesses, the shifting-rail can be removed, so as to detach the rail from the seat or place it in position without the trouble of having to remove the back altogether.

As it is not necessary by this construction to remove the back from the seat, it will ieadily be seen that a great deal of time and labor is saved, and that there is no danger of losing or displacing any of the nuts at any time. Shifting-rails have heretofore been made, but in all cases it has been necessary to remove the back entirely from the seat in order to apply the rail to or remove it from the seat.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination of the seat, the back,

and the shifting-rail provided with the four projections I on its front and sides, all of which are slotted, whereby the rail can be wholly detached by loosening the nuts on the seatirons, substantially as shown.

2. The combination of the seat, the back having irons which are provided with shoulders or flanges, and the nuts 0, with the shifting-rail X, provided with projections I, which are cupped and slotted, and the irons F, through which the lower ends of the seat-irons J pass, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ILIMMON B. FULLER. \Vitnesses:

MILES ROGERS, ED. J. THOMPSON. 

